Re: running in background on send

[Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:40:02AM +1300, Dylan Stamat wrote:
> Yeah, you're right... thanks Michael :)
> Didn't realize that I hadd declared an smtp_url in my muttrc :/
> 
> It is still very slow however.  Probably about 30 seconds to send an email and
> before I get control of mutt again.
> 
> Any ideas ?

All you should need is something like:

  set sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"

And then of course make sure your sendmail configuration is set up
correctly (it should work by default in most cases).

This will deliver the message straight to the sendmail queue which
should be near instantaneous.  Then sendmail will deliver it in the
background.

You can probably take a look at /var/log/maillog (or equivalent on your
system) during an queue submission attempt from mutt to watch for any
problems.

Ray